Seems they also want to scrap the â??Fairness Testâ?? [?} for Workchoices so they can also pay rural workers slave wages.

I only saw the NFF ads when briefly switching to commercial telly (on a rare break from the Disney channel). They have one reasonable sounding one about water, and that stupid one about workplace reform. It beats me what they are smoking: farmers simply cannot get labour when they are competing with the mines (especially in places like WA – some of those little farming towns are turning into ghost towns). The NFF’s brilliant plan to combat this? Offer even less money for farm work. It’s brilliant!

Nice to see somebody else from Armidale too!

Saw Hockey on the news last night bagging out Brumby et al for being stingy with nurses’ pay, Lefty E, so that’s not quite right. Stunning hypocrisy.

Still, hope it does play the way you’re suggesting.

I wonder how comments from WA ANF Head Mark Olson basically saying he supports AWA for Nurses have gone down in Victoria.

There was a similar dispute during the WA State Election in 2005 and Olson had signed a deal with the libs.

Gallop and McGinty in the last week averted strike action by agreeing to a new deal during the last week or 2 prior to the election.

Still, hope it does play the way you’re suggesting.

You cant help thinking its good for federal labor: all this anti-union cant in the air, and meanwhile the nurses are on illegal action, with major public support.

Not so good for Brumby. But who cares about that!

Difficult to say from this distance how the Nurses’ dispute will play in Victoria. Things seemed quite chirpy for the ALP there.

The southern part of the electorate (Carnegie, Murrumbeena, Hughesdale) is far from from affluent andthe Labor Party holds the state seat of Prahran.

The doctors’ wives will vote Labor because they can no longer abide that beastly man John Howard and that nice Mr Rudd presents no threat, unlike that awful Mr Latham. The 26 year old still-living-at-home doctors’ children will vote Green because they are worried about climate change and will preference Labor.